Lunch and Learn
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023: Draft Consultation
29th August 2023 - 10am-11am
Co-chairs: Steve Myers, Dr Sarah Steele
Summary:
The AoCPP is holding this meeting for members to hear and discuss the feedback from the AoCPP member review panel who have read and considered the draft consultation of Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023. This is an opportunity to contribute any points you would like to raise about the consultation and to have them represented in the final document that the AoCPP will submit on behalf of the membership. You can also contribute via email submission by 17th August should you be unable to attend the meeting
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Dr. Sarah Steele is an independent Child Safeguarding Consultant and formerly Head of Child Safeguarding Service at a large university hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She has contributed to previous iterations of Working Together since 2002 on behalf of the acute health sector.
Steve Myers is a registered Social Worker with a background in child protection and youth justice. He has worked as a Social Worker in both statutory and voluntary organisations and has been involved with the education of social workers in Higher Education for the past 25 years, including leadership roles. Steve has researched and written about strengths-based and solution-focused practice, working with violent behaviour including sexual violence and assessment in social work practice.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
